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I'm told that Easter has it's roots in ancient Eygypt with Isis, the goddess of fertility. The eggs represent the fertility. Skipping ahead... the Egyptian holiday was combined with a pagan spring festival to come up with modern-day Easter.

A more important tip: If you're hiding real eggs, either make a list of where they went, or don't hide them TOO well. Don't think I'll ever forget finding eggs over 8 months later... *grin*

No one knows for sure how the custom of hiding and hunting for eggs began, but it's possible that it may be based on the fact that before farming, people literally had to hunt for eggs the same way they hunted for other food.

The early Saxons had a Spring Goddess named Eostre (also known as Oestre and Eastre), whose feast was held on the Vernal Equinox, around March 21. Her animal was the spring hare (later the rabbit) because it was known to be a very fertile animal. Likewise, the egg, for obvious reasons, is a symbol of birth or new life.

Ostara, the Pagan celebration on which the Christian holiday of Easter is based, was a celebration of new life and rebirth. In fact, the date for Easter is always the first Sunday after the full moon that occurs after the Vernal Equinox. I’m always amused by the fact that the two major Christian holidays (the other being Christmas, of course) are in fact, Pagan.

It's not an accident that the Christian holy-days and Pagan holidays fall on the same day. As the Christian religion gained power, their dates were shuffled to coincide in an attempt to "take over" those dates. If only they new way back then how Hallmark and Walmart would take over. *grin*

That's what I'm thinking. So they [ok, so I'm lumping in different groups] killed the cats because they hung out with "witches" and subsequently were killed themselves by a plague that exploded with the population of rats. So rats go down as the bad guy even if the fleas ON the rats were the real culprit. What a mess! *grin*

first introduced to America in the early 1800s by German immigrants, who brought with them to the new country their old tradition of the Oschter Haws. For German children, the Oschter Haws - or Easter Bunny - was the highlight of their Easter celebrations. The Haws would arrive on Easter morning, delighting them by laying colored eggs in nests.

i heard it came from Europe where if a woman couldn't get pregnant,they would paint her and hide her ni the forest and a bunch of men would go looking for her and they all would have sex with her in order to get her pregnant..this is what i have heard..